frequently asked questions

All designs are made to work with 5" shingle course height. Some designs may accommodate exposures as low as 4 3/4" or as much as 7"+. Please refer to each product description for the range of course height each design will fit.

Some larger designs may require a handful of small tweaks (cuts) if your existing shingles (or plan specifications) vary from the industry-standard 5" course (exposure) height. These are very small cuts that can be made with an exacto knife, coping saw or jigsaw.

Installing our shingle designs vary in difficulty depending on size and detail. While some smaller designs may be installed by the average homeower, we recommend larger more complicated designs be installed by more experienced craftsmen.

Each shingle design comes with step by step instructions to make installation simple. Mosaic Shingle Company has developed an installation technique that drastically reduces the complications normally associated with artistic shingle design installations.

Yes, as long as you use the same material as your existing shingles, your design will weather to match over time. You can also bleach or power wash the area where you installed your design to help blend the old and new shingles better. Pre-primed designs are ready for you or your painter to paint or stain to match the existing shingled wall.

Each Mosaic Shingle design comes with extra full shingles. If you happen to damage a shingle, you can either trace the design onto an extra shingle and cut it onsite, or you can contact us and we will send you a replacement.

You can use any fastener rated for outdoor shingle applications, we do however highly recommend you use stainless steel nails. We also recommend 15lb felt paper or approved house wraps to be used during shingle application.

Bare cedar shingles and pre-primed shingle designs are applied with roughly 1/16" of space between them, which can be adjusted slightly during installation in order to make the design fit better. Over time as the shingles weather they will develop spaces of varying size and may match the existing shingles.

Cedar shingles will swell, cup, and curl both before and after installation depending on the amount of humidity in the air. This is normal and to be expected.

Cupped and warped shingles are a common occurrence with cedar products. In cases when cupped shingles arrive in a shingle design, they should be carefully nailed as low as possible without the nails being exposed. In extreme cases a third nail can be added in the middle of the shingle.

No, cedar shingles should typically not be glued. Natural wood expands and contracts with time, temperature, and humidity. Gluing may restrict the shingles natural ability to aclimate to the environment.